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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "New York"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "New York")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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6809 results for: Keyword - New York
We found 3237 matches on Event Comments, 2688 matches on Performance Title, 1650 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

526
03 March 1701 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental Music-

527
12 May 1702 @ Somerset House Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental Musick- , Composed on purpose for the occasion, by Mr Weldon and Mr King

528
25 May 1702 @ Chelsea College

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Musick-Mr Abell, other Voices; with Instrumental Musick- of all Sorts

529
05 March 1703 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Musick, with several Songs-the Famous Seniora Anna, lately come from Rome, who never Sung on the Stage, nor ever accompany'd any other Voice publickly in England

530
14 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Song: Henry Purcell's celebrated Trumpet Song, The Fife and Harmony of War-; The Mad Song in Don Quixote-Boman, by request

Dance: Chacone-Mrs Elford; a new Entry-Fairbank; Venetian, a new Whim-Godwin

Music: New Italian Trumpet Sonatas-

531
08 April 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: Aeneas and Dido

Dance: New Scotch dances-

532
09 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche; Or, Love's Mistress

Music: All the Vocal and Instrumental Music compos'd by the Famous Mr Matthew Lock-

Dance: New dances- proper to the occasion; particularly Arbour Dance in Imitation of the Original-duRuel, Cherrier, Laforest

533
27 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

Song: A dialogue from The Mad Lover-Boman, Dogget in women's clothes; another dialogue-Cook, Godwin, the latter for his first appearance on the stage; Hark ye Madam from Love's a Jest-

Dance: New Scenev between a Drunken Beau and a Chimney/Sweeper-; several dances-Laithfield, Mrs Evans, Firbank, Firbank's scholar

534
10 February 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Song: As17050104

Dance: New dances-duRuel, Mrs duRuel, others

535
09 April 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Librettist unknown. Premiere. For the identification of this opera, see Loewenberg, pp. 58-59. Downes (p. 48) says that the opera lasted five days; Cibber (I, 325) states that it was given only three days, and those not crowded. This day marked the opening of the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket, the first new theatrical construction of the century. For a discussion of it, see Cibber, I, 319-22.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Ergasto

Performance Comment: A new set of Singers, arriv'd from Italy [Downes, p. 48]; Prologue [written by Sir Samuel Garth-Mrs Bracegirdle; Epilogue [written by William Congreve-Mrs Bracegirdle.

536
24 October 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Song: New songs in English and Italian-Mrs del'Epine

537
19 February 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Song: Leveridge, the Boy

Dance: New dances-duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier

538
28 February 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (act Iv Only)

Afterpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus

Dance: New Dances by Cherrier-Cherrier, Miss Santlow his Schollar, being the first time of her Appearance on the Stage

539
22 January 1707 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters; with pieces for trumpets hautboys German flutes and violins-

540
26 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Song: New songs-Mrs Fletcher

Music: A Lesson upon the Harpsichord-an Eminent Master

Dance: As17151217

541
19 July 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Song: New Songs-Mrs Bowman

Dance: The Boor Left In The Lurch (new)-Burkhead, Mrs Willis

542
24 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Dance: New Serious Dance by Moreau-Moreau, Mrs Bullock; Salle, Mlle Salle

543
28 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: The Frost Music-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Reading, Mrs Cross

Dance: new Serious Dance by Moreau-Moreau, Kellum's Scholar, Cook, Newhouse, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith, Salle, Mlle Salle; Moreau, Shaw, Mrs Bullock

544
02 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politicks

Song: Mrs Barbier, particularley those Songs she sung last; with a Addition of Joys Immortal-

Dance: New Serious Dance composed and performed-Thurmond, Miss Smith

545
19 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Dance: New Dances-Miss Francis

546
11 March 1724 @ Blue Posts Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Entertainment: New Songs-; Drunken Man-

547
14 November 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Dance: new Grand Dance-Shaw, Thurmond, Boval, Topham, Topham Jr, Essex, Mrs Booth, Mrs Tenoe, Mrs Anderson

548
02 December 1724 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Song: New Song-Tony Aston in the Habit of a Fryar

549
29 March 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Massaniello; Or, A Fisherman A Prince

Song: With the Original Ballad In Praise of Fishing (new set)-Leveridge

Music: Solemn Piece of Music-Vocal and Instrumental) performed at the Confirmation of the Charter; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Legar, Salway

Dance: new Comic Dance in the Characters of Fishermen and their wives-Nivelon, DuPre, Glover, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Legar, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden

550
25 October 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Dance: new Dance of Slaves-; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; Wooden Shoe Dance in the Character of a Clown-Nivelon